Five years ago, more than 250 parties could run in the European Parliament elections.
In the election of the Hungarian members of the European Parliament, the party that was legally registered at the time of the voting can run as a nominating organization. The National Court Office (OBH) announced that there were 185 legally registered parties in the registry of civil organizations on March 12, when the election was scheduled.
According to OBH data, between January 1, 2023 and the end of February 2024, 12 parties were legally registered and 30 were deleted from the register.
From the 2019 EP election to this year's announcement, 57 parties were registered and 68 were deleted from the register. Five years ago, 264 parties could run in the EP elections.
Although most of the parties founded in the first half of the 1990s have since ceased to exist, according to the register of the OBH, some of them are still active today. Among the parliamentary parties, the MSZP was registered in the court in November 1989, the KDNP in December 1989, and the Fidesz in February 1990.
The Party of Hungarian Environmentalists and the Social Democratic Party of Hungary were founded in 1989, and the Hungarian Workers' Party in 1990.
FKGP and MDF (today called Jólét és Szabadság Democratic Community), founded during the regime change in 1989, are currently being liquidated. MIÉP, registered in 1993, has ceased to exist, and although according to the register there is still a party registered under that name, it was founded in the summer of 2021.
MTI
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